Release Notes for NEdit Version 5.4, November 2003

This file contains last minute notes to users about the release, which are not included in the documentation or README files included with the distribution kits. It also contains change information, for users who are interested in what bugs have been fixed, and what features have been added in the current version.

If you are upgrading NEdit from a version prior to 5.0, please see the notes in the README file which came with the (source or executable) distribution kit, about updating macros and font settings in your .nedit file.

New Features in 5.4

• Calltips (SF patch #495286)
• Rangesets (SF patch #529298, #628933)
• Backlighting (SF patch #529298)
• Highlighting information macros (SF patch #529298)
• Full mouse wheel support for XFree86 (SF patch #715941)
• Look-behind matching for regular expressions (SF patch #530308)
• Regular expression and syntax highlighting speed-ups
• Flexible resource file location (SF patch #484674) See the section "Upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4" of the README file for more information.
• Color dialog (SF patch #595330)
• Option to auto-hide mouse pointer while typing
• Option to keep cursor away from top and bottom of the screen
• Check for real changes of externally modified files (SF patch #602426)
• Synchronized interaction between nc and nedit (SF patch #403647)
• Several smaller improvements on usability and speed
• Several smaller improvements to the macro language (SF patch #552760, ...)

Bugs Fixed in 5.4

• Unconvential word boundary semantics for regular expressions have been corrected (including affected syntax highlighting patterns). See the section "Upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4" of the README file for important information.
• Config files didn't accept non-Unix file format (SF bug #411092)
• Removed regex search bugs (SF bug #429110, #515120)
• Smart-indent macros were unaffected by language mode renames (SF bug #439867)
• All dialogs have titles now (SF bug #480960)
• Giving long filenames at startup caused buffer overflows (SF bug #488412)
• Made sure that dialogs don't get wider than screen (SF bug #488593, #489614, #713999)
• Workaround for Motif drag icon bug (SF bug #526981: Crash using btn2 on help window buttons and SF bug #582469: 5.3 crash when selecting stats line text).
• Dragging a rectangular selection could delete characters (SF bug #557225)
• Show Matching Range bug (SF bug #559902)
• Keyboard-based rectangular selections were forgotten if the selection ever became zero-width.
• Workaround for KDE's FONTLIST bug (SF bug #561659)
• Paths were still shown in current's window Windows menu after global option was changed (SF bug #564782)
• Scrolling to searched or undone/redone section stopped short (SF bug #578551)
• Removed flicker in stats line due to bug prevention (SF bug #594838)
• Crash while dismissing a resized help window (SF bug #600175)
• Macro functions were evaluated in a wrong order (SF bug #602336, #628552)
• Syntax highlighting failures in LaTeX (SF bug #607072)
• Crash with wrong values for -tabs option (SF bug #608693)
• Macro shortcuts were sensitive to Lock and NumLock (SF bug #612558)
• Appending the terminating line break was not reflected in the buffer (SF bug #617840)
• A new nc(1) hanged after a server was killed or crashed (SF bug #619231)
• Adds (short) list of deprecated macro functions (SF bug #619236)
• Removed hazardous command shortcut (SF bug #649442)
• Workaround for OpenMotif radio button bug (SF bug #678198: bug in Replace in multiple files).
• Typo in SCO makefile (SF bug #689808)
• Syntax highlighting routines assumed ASCII encoding (SF bug #700823)
• Crash when starting up in a UTF-8 locale (SF bug #703246)
• Crash while manipulating highlighting pattern (SF bug #705495)
• Removed flicker in stats line during macro execution (SF bug #713780)
• Close pane resize bug (SF bug #715767)
• Macro function goto_line_number() only accepted one argument (SF bug #726325)
• Newline macro inserting a string caused a crash when triggered through smart indent
• Help text foreground was hard-coded to black (SF bug #723096)
• System default colors from CDE Style Manager were ignored (SF bug #544053)

Changes since 5.4RC1

• Panes didn't inherit the right colors (SF bug #780267)
• Fixed Rangeset API usability issues and bugs.
• Plain KP Enter now inserts a newline, not <CR> (SF bug #779439).
• Enabled Motif version checking for xBSD.
• SGI: compilation problem (SF bug #780841)
• File modification issues (SF bug #782513, SF bug #784442)
• Documentation updates.
• Color dialog button resize problem.
• undoModifiesSelection is no longer saved in .nedit/nedit.rc
• Workaround for Lesstif's 'frozen windows' bug.
• Fixed calltip parsing problem (SF bug #779681)
• Macro language HL pattern updates.
• nc -do ... no longer creates unwanted windows (SF bug #785738).
• Improved color resource migration.
• File accessibility is now determined with access() (SF bug #782518)

Changes since 5.4RC2

• Nc crash fix on VMS.
• Fixes in highlighting information inspection macros.
• Nc -lm command line option fix.

A more extensive release notes document can be found in the distributed packages.